Overview
- Tackles contemporary ecumenical relations from a broad and inter-church perspective.
- Offers one of the first detailed assessments of the impact of Francis’ papacy on ecumenical dialogue.
- Provides is a clear sense of hope for the future in a rapidly changing world and even a sense of optimism that real ecumenical progress might be made.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue (PEID)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Hope and Unity
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Hope, Practice and Pluralism
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers fresh insights into the contemporary state of Ecumenism. Following the election of Pope Francis, there has been a significant thaw in ecumenical relations, and there are grounds for thinking that this will continue into the future. The twelve chapters, written both by experienced ecumenical theologians as well as younger scholars, that have been gathered together in this collection, offer one of the first detailed assessments of the impact of Francis’ papacy on ecumenical dialogue. Drawing on ecumenical methodology, as well as many practical examples and illustrations, the authors discuss the developments in culture and missiology as these affect the practice of ecumenism, particularly in response to theologies of hope as well as inter-religious dialogue and pluralism. What emerges is a clear sense of hope for the future in a rapidly changing world and even a sense of optimism that real ecumenical progress might be made.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Mark D. Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon and Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford. He is a Church of England priest serving three small rural parishes and Canon Theology of Truro Cathedral. He has written widely on the history of the church and its theology, and also serves as Vice-Chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network. Among his recent books are Theology at War and Peace: English Theology and Germany in the First World War (2017) and The Fantasy of Reunion: Anglicans, Catholics and Ecumenism, 1833-1882 (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hope in the Ecumenical Future
Editors: Mark D. Chapman
Series Title: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63372-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63371-8Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87537-8Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63372-5Published: 20 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6591
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 226
Topics: Christian Theology, Comparative Religion, Catholicism